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Revision as of 17:49, 6 October 2008
Psi Corps Emblem
The Psi Corps is an Earth Alliance organization established to help human telepaths learn to control their abilities for the betterment of themselves and Humanity at large.
Philosophies
It is the position of the Psi Corps that telepathic humans that do not learn how to control their abilities are mostly unstable or become insane. Therefore they need guidance. In addition to that, unregistered Telepaths could do severe damage to society by using their abilities for criminal reasons.
Under Earth Alliance law, all human Telepaths have to be registered by Psi Corps. After that, they have to choices: Work for the Psi Corps or take drugs to suppress their abilities. Most choose to work for Psi Corps, because one common side effect of the drugs is severe depression which often ends in suicide.[1]
Unstable telepaths - such as schizophrenic ones - are locked away for "the good of everyone".[2]
Terminology
Psi Corps had a number of different slang terms used by all its members.
- Blip: a rogue telepath, usually on the run
- Mundanes: non-telepaths, meaning literally "normals"
- Teep: referring to any telepath
- Teek: referring to any telekinetic
History
Psi Corps Headquaters
Early History
The beginnings of the Psi Corps were in 2152 when EA President Marion Robinson passed telepath equal opportunity laws and established the Committee on Psychic Phenomenon.[3] In 2161, the EA passed the Internal Security Act, which established the Psi Corps from the earlier organization, the Metasensory Regulation Authority.[4] Lee Crawford became the first director of the Psi Corps. Shortly after he was assassinated, Kevin Vacit, became director.
Underground Railroad
Doctor Stephen Franklin participated in an underground railroad to help rogue telepaths escape from the Corps. Eventually, the telepaths who escaped provided assistance during the closing days of the Second Shadow war, while the highest levels of the Corps allied itself with the Shadows, providing them with telepaths to alter, while the Shadows, via Morden, took an active role in the assassination of Luis Santiago and allowed some of their technology to be used by Earthforce.
After the Shadow war and the Earth Alliance Civil War were over, and both the Shadows and the Clark dictatorship were defeated, President John Sheridan of the Interstellar Alliance allowed rogue telepaths to form a small colony on Babylon 5. The situation ended in violence when the Psi Cops attempted to take the rogue telepaths back to Earth.
After the colony on Babylon 5 was forced to leave following the death of its leader, Byron, Lyta Alexander began a crusade against the Psi Corps. Her actions led to a war in which rogue telepaths and non telepaths fought the Psi Corps. Once the Telepath War was over, the Psionic Monitoring Commission dedicated itself to hunting down those members of the Corps who committed war crimes, such as Alfred Bester. He was eventually captured and sentenced to spending the rest of his life in prison with his abilities taken away by sleepers.
Many private schools were founded to educate telepaths; they met with mixed success. Telepaths were allowed a much wider range of options as far as their lives were concerned. This included joining the Earth Alliance military and working for private organizations.
Telepath War
Having lost the power it held during the Clark administration, the Psi Corps attempted to take over Earth, only to be defeated by the Earth Alliance forces with the aid of the Interstellar Alliance and the rogue telepaths. As a result, the Psi Corps was disbanded and those guilty of war crimes prosecuted and rendered powerless through the use of sleepers.
Mentality
Psi Corps calls itself the family of all human Telepaths. They see themselves as a different race than humans which they call "mundanes".
They always try to deal with incidents concerning telepaths internally, in order to avoid interference by mundanes. As long as they pretend that nothing goes wrong "behind these walls", the mundanes leave the Psi Corps alone.
Thus they call such incidents "a family matter". [2]
To strengthen the dedication of Telepaths to the Corps, there are a variety of slogans that shall remind the Telepaths, that Psi Corps is their family:
- "The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father."
- "MATERNIS / PATERNIS"
- "Protect the family."
- "OBEY"
- "TRUST THE CORPS"
- "United in thought, divided in memory."
Psi Cops
Psi Cop training
The Psi Cops are a para-military body who enforce laws related to telepaths and deal with rogues and blips. All Psi Cops are P-12s[5], the highest rating within the Psi Scale, but not every P-12 has the ability to become a Psi Cop, because it takes a certain amount of ruthlessness. Psi Cops receive a special training in blocking and scanning so that they are able to resist a deep-scan for at least an hour. [2]
While Psi Cops claim to only want to bring rogue telepaths back to the Psi Corps family, they are likely to kill a rogue telepath upon capturing one.
Resources
The Psi Corps headquarters has hospitals, offices and a boarding school where young "teeps" and "teeks" avoid the persecution they would face among the mundane population. Family names were matriarchal, the mother's unmarried name was carried forward to the children. This is why female telepaths, such as Lyta Alexander and Talia Winters all carry their surname down the generations.
Although Earthforce thought, Psi Corps would have limited resources and would not be capable of building warships, Psi Corps had some. They remained in Hyperspace most of the time and left it only for maintenance and repairs. By that, Psi Corps made sure, Earthforce wasn't aware of the true strength of the Corps.
- Black Omega Starfury
- Omega class destroyer
- Omega Mothership
- Shuttle
Known Members
| Name | P-rating | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Lyta Alexander | P>12 (former P-5) | Psi Corps commercial telepath assigned to Babylon 5 (2257), went rogue shortly thereafter |
| Jason Ironheart | P>12 (former P-10) | Psi Corps Teacher |
| Alfred Bester | P-12 | Psi Cop |
| Miss Kelsey | P-12 | Psi Cop |
| Lauren Ashley | P-12 | Psi Cop |
| Chen Hikaru | P-12 | Psi Cop |
| "the dark man" | P-12 | hidden personality of Jonathan Harris |
| Jonathan Harris | P-10 | Student |
| Talia Winters | P-5 | Psi Corps commercial telepath assigned to Babylon 5 (2258-2259) |
| John Matheson | P-5 | Assistant to Psi Cops |
| Harriman Gray | P-10 | adjunct to Colonel Ben Zayn |
Notable quotes
- "The Corps is mother, the Corps is father."
- "The Psi Corps is your friend. Trust the Corps."
- "We Are Everywhere For Your Convenience."